al experience, he was anxious to have my opinion of them, and had
invited me for that purpose. He read them to me, manifested great
interest as to my opinion, and seemed to be very much delighted or
relieved when I praised them and predicted a success. I do not
exaggerate in this in the least; his expression was plainly and
unmistakably that of a man from whom some doubt had been banished.

My brother Henry had at once entered a training-school for officers in
Philadelphia, distinguished himself as a pupil, and gone out to the war
in 1862. The terrible ill-luck which attended his every effort in life
overtook him speedily, and, owing to his extreme zeal and over-work, he
had a sunstroke, which obliged him to return home. He was a
first-lieutenant. The next year he went as sergeant, and was again
invalided. What further befell him will appear in the course of my
narrative.

The _Continental Magazine_ had done its work and was evidently dying. I
had never received a cent from it, and it had just met the expenses of
publication. It had done much good and rendered great service to the
Union cause. Gilmore had very foolishly yielded half the ownership to
Robert J. Walker, of whom I confess I have no very agreeable
recollections. So it began to die. But I have the best authority for
declaring that, ere it died, it had advanced the time of the Declaration
of Emancipation, which was the turning-point of the whole struggle, and
all my friends in Boston were of that opinion. This I can fully prove.

The summer of 1862 I passed in Dedham, going every day to my office in
Boston. We lived at the Phoenix Hotel, and occupied the same rooms which
my father and mother had inhabited thirty-five years before. We had many
very kind and hospitable friends. I often found time to roam about the
country, to sit by Wigwam Lake, to fish in the river Charles, and explore
the wild woods. I have innumerable pleasant recollections of that
summer.

I returned in the autumn with my wife to Philadelphia, and to my father's
house in Locust Street. The first thing which I did was to write a
pamphlet on "Centralisation _versus_ States Rights." In it I set forth
clearly enough the doctrine that the Constitution of the United States
could not be interpreted so as to sanction secession, and that as the
extremities or limbs grew in power, so there should be a strengthening of
the brain or greater power bestowed on the central Government.